The Most Dangerous Game Irony Analysis
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The inconspicuous irony in Richard Connell’s striking story “The Most Dangerous Game” complements the irony in Edgar Allen Poe’s marvelous piece “The Cask of Amontillado” giving Poe’s piece the upper hand in literary value between these two ironic stories. During Connell’s prose while two characters, General Zaroff and Rainsford, have an unusual conversation on how “We[the character] will have some capital hunting, you and I,” later exhibits verbal Irony when readers learn that Zaroff did not mean them hunting together, but instead him hunting Rainsford (7). However, the situational irony of the hunter, now the hunted concludes the irony in Connell’s prose. Poe’s story, nonetheless, never ceases to use irony. Almost immediately the reader